On Monday, 10 February 2020 10:17:26 UTC, Brian Gaff (Sofa 2) wrote:
"Tricky Dicky" wrote in message
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Had to go out yesterday morning but on our return trip many of the roads we
had to travel were already flooding and a number of cars were already coming
to grief. Fortunately the Kuga managed to negotiate everything although
within the hour all these roads became impassable. It did occur to me how
would electric cars cope particularly with the tendency to mount batteries
under the floor. It is one thing to protect connections from the normal
spray generated in wet conditions and quite another when things get a good
dunking. Anyone with any experience of driving an electric car in these
conditions?

Richard

I guess it depends on how conductive the water is

not very

and what the control
electronics and motors do if they get wet.
a) electronics: go haywire if not sealed
b) slow down & corrode if unsealed

I doubt there would be a major failure as the batteries are protected from
catastrophic run away failure, but I often wonder how insurance might view
it, ie Electric car, driving through a flood, how stupid... grin.
Brian

a lot of insurance claims are, some famously so.


NT